Jack London The story of Jack London's life really is one of rags to riches. He was born in San Francisco on January 12, 1876 as John Griffith Chaney. I'd like to take you through the story of his life and examine a few of his significant literary works along the way. The Dictionary of Literary Biography Volume 78 says that "the biographical consensus is that his father was William Henry Chaney, a "Professor of Astrology" with whom his mother, Flora Wellman, was living as a fellow spiritualist and common-law wife in 1875." (DOLB 78). However it goes on to point out that "Chaney had deserted her in a rage of denial when he learned of her pregnancy" (DOLB 78). In 1876 Flora married John London. John was a Civil War veteran. He was also a widower who had to put his two daughters into an orphanage while he worked. Upon their marriage the Dictionary of Literary Biography Volume 212 says that "Flora's child was renamed John "Jack" Griffith London" (DOLB 212). After marrying John the new family moved to Oakland California. When this happened Jack was introduced to the world of books by visiting the Oakland Public Library. He began reading at a young age because he was a lonely child. One of his favorite books was Ouida's Signa. Signa is the story of a great Italian Composer who rose to fame from being the illegitimate son of a peasant girl. Perhaps this story inspired Jack in some way as he also rose from a similar status, though he composed works of literature instead of music. His mother had a bad habit of wasting money on get rich quick schemes. Because of this, even as a boy Jack was forced to do part time work to help support the family. He held a wide range of jobs. Some were simple and part time like being a newspaper delivery boy. After finishing grade school however, he went to work at a cannery. He worked up to "eighteen hours a day at ten cents an hour stuffing pickles into jars" (DOLB 78). That experience was traumatic and it drove him to hate physical labor. He turned that trauma into a story called "The Apostate" which is regarded as one of his most powerful. In his mid-teens London borrowed money and bought himself a fishing ship.
On August 14, 1851 in Griffin, Georgia, John Henry Holliday was born to Henry Burroughs and Alice Jane Holliday. Their first child, Martha Eleanora, had died on June 12, 1850 at six months of age. When he married Alice Jane McKay on January 8, 1849, Henry Burroughs was a druggist by trade and, later became a wealthy planter, lawyer, and during the War between the States, a Confederate Major. Church records state: "John Henry, infant son of Henry B. and Alice J.
Throughout the novel The Call of the Wild Buck is thrown into a vast amount of obstacles. Buck is a half Saint Bernard and Half Sheepdog who is stolen from a home in California. He was then sold as a sled dog in the arctic where he would begin his adventure. Buck undergoes many challenges that can be related to human beings. The two experiences that everyone goes through are love and death. According to Jack London in The Call of the Wild, love and death are portrayed as bitter, sweet, and deadly.
Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born on January 31, 1919 (York). He was born in the small town of Cairo, Georgia, on that day in January. His parents were Jerry and Mallie Robinson, the two of them didn’t have the best of marriage but they made out ok (Allen). Later in 1919, Jerry left Mallie to go farm some land somewhere else, but it was later found out that he had run off with another woman.
Jack London was one of America’s greatest authors. His works were of tales from the unexplored savage lands of the Klondike to the cannibal infested Philippine Island chain of the vast Pacific, and even the far reaches of space and time. Jack London himself was a pioneer of the unexplored savage frontier. London wrote about this unknown frontier with a cunning sense of adventure and enthrallment. “He keeps the reader on tenterenters books by withholding facts in a way that makes him participate in the action'; (Charles Child Walcutt 16). He taunts the reader with unfulfilled information that subliminally encourages the reader to continue reading their selection. “The tortuously baroque style, it’s telling often proves an annoyance';(Gorman Beauchamp 297-303). London’s writing attributes are so deep in description and narration, the reader sometimes perceives the story-taking place with them included in the action. His ability to exclude just the very miniscule amount of information transforms his books into a semi-formal mystery. Mr. London’s tales deal with nature, the men and women who either neglected the fact that they are mere mortals, or they humbled themselves as being only a solitary one being on the earth. His stories satisfied the civilized American readers yearn for knowledge of what awaited them over the horizon, with either promise of prosperity or demise with a manifestation of dismay.
Fang the main character is a gray cub wolf. Wolves in this novels were used
In “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky,” Stephen Crane uses humor to illustrate the East coming to the old West. Crane uses three characters throughout this parody to demonstrate the change approaching the West. Jack Potter is the main character, and Crane uses his marriage to the unnamed bride to illustrate civilization coming to the old West.
Due to his extreme popularity he opened the door to public radio. For these reasons, Jack Dempsey was influential to the 1920’s and even to this very day. William Harrison Dempsey, better known as Jack Dempsey, was born on June 24, 1895. He was born in Colorado but became a “nomadic traveler” when he began his boxing career in the small rickety towns of his home state (“Biography”). At the age of sixteen, Dempsey started training to box.
London’s mother married John London, who had fought in the Civil War. John London moved his family, Including Jack London, throughout San Francisco before finally moving them to Oakland (1). In Oakland, at age 5, London started helping his step father with the laborious job of farming.
So when Jack's father got older and retired, he could hand it down to Jack. So Jack started working for his father in his shop at the age of sixteen. It was easy for him because he could swing a big metal hammer that no normal sixteen year old boy could lift. The first thing that he made was that big metal hammer when his father taught him how to blacksmith. But before his father taught him everything that he knew about blacksmiths. Jack looked around at different jobs in the town before settling as a blacksmith. He thought he could be better at something else than working at his dad's place. But he found out that he didn't fit in with everyone and he was too strong for the jobs he looked at. So he just ended up working for his father. When Jack hits the metal with the metal hammer, everything use to shake and it felt like an
Born in 1812 Charles Dickens grew up in a small town in London. Dickens grew up in a poor family. His family, sent to debtors∙ jail before he became old enough to fend for himself, convinced him to find work and stay out of the jail. Dickens worked anywhere, from law offices to newspapers as a young child. (∜New Standard Encyclopedia∠D-155) A Christmas Carol, written by Dickens, has changed many things in the world today, especially Christmas traditions and religion.
As an adolescent, Jack London led an impoverished life and struggled to earn more money to support himself and his mother. In an attempt to find a small fortune, London joined the Klondike Gold Rush in 1897. Unfortunately, he returned home penniless. However, his adventures in the Yukon provided him the most epic experiences that guided him into writing some of his most famous, widely acclaimed literary works. His novels focus primarily on naturalism, a type of literature in which the characters are shaped by their environment through the practice of scientific principles. The author centralizes his themes around this literary technique. Jack London’s naturalistic portrayal of his characters explores the brutal truth of humans versus animals and the struggle for survival.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born in Brookline, Mass., on May 29, 1917. Kennedy graduated from Harvard University in 1940 and joined the Navy the next year.
Jack London was not Jack London at first. His real name was John Griffith Chaney, or just Johnny. The future writer was born on January 12, 1876, at 615 Third Street, San Francisco, California. Jack London was raised in a family of his mother Flora, who was a spiritualist, and his stepfather John London, who loved him a lot. John London felt sorry for Jack, because he was a partially disabled Civil War veteran and Jack had to do all work. It is believed that Jack was the illegitimate son of Williams Chaney, an itinerant astrologer and journalist. London’s parents’ may be described as rather homely American family.
And at one point in his life he was so determined to make a decent living and finally make his way to the top of the ladder to make great pay he wound up devoting his whole life to work and sleep, losing sight of life outside of work, losing sight of what made him happy and what he enjoyed to do, and that was writing. So he went on with his life and During his teenage years he joined Coxey Army and he was a part of the famous march on Washington DC. Jack London even wrote a short story called “Two Thousand Stiffs” that really goes into detail about his personal experiences during the march to Washington event. The short story “Two Thousand Stiffs” was published in a hardcover as a part of the autobiography collection “The Roads” in 1907. In his autobiography it describes in great detail what his life was like when he was a hobo during the economic depression in the 1890’s and while he was traveling with Kelly’s army that eventually led to the march on Washington. Jack did a lot of traveling during this time in his life and he met a lot of interesting people, people with different view on life and how life should
Is Jack London a nature faker? That’s an arguable opinion. In my essay I will be stating the reasons why Jack London IS a nature faker. In my research I found that when Jack London went to the Klondike to write his book, “Call of the Wild” he saw many acts of animal cruelty. Jack London did infact state that his encounters with animal cruelty did affect his writing. Also, in his book he shows animals showing strange acts of, “love”, which most dogs do not show like Buck, the dog in the book. In the book it also has many encounters of Buck doing human tasks, such as reading the newspaper and taking the grand kids places. As you can tell, Buck is being humanized.